Ronin

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A team of former intelligence agents meet in a disused warehouse in Paris where they begin one of their most deadly missions. An unknown employer tasks them with following a briefcase...







John Frankenheimer was a great director in the 60s—Manchurian Candidate and Seconds are two of my very fave films from that decade, and in his best pictures, Frankenheimer’s world is a shady one, full of dark, duplicitous and dangerous people. His best work of this era was also shot in glorious black and white, which not only tossed us back to the films noir that informed his best work, but also helped accentuate the sense of not-quite-rightness in this other world. While Ronin is certainly not in the same league as the aforementioned works, it has enough double-dealing and visual punch to overcome some of the blandness of the genre conventions it occasionally resorts to (I lost track of the number of surprises and coincidences foisted on us). And while DeNiro is not exactly making us forget Travis Bickle or Jake LaMotta, he isn’t sleepwalking through the film either, unlike most of his recent efforts. Oh, and yeah, like every critic in the world has noted: Great car chase. Not Bullitt or French Connection great, but perhaps To Live and Die in L.A. great nonetheless. The supporting cast is pretty strong (nice to see Jean Reno again), but the ever-luscious Natascha McElhorne is rather unconvincing as a terrorist operative. I know he made other films after Ronin, but I prefer to think of Frankenheimer as going out, well, if not exactly on top, at least on a high note with the slightly insubstantial but stylistically sophisticated song in a minor key that is Ronin.















Robert De Niro ...  Sam
Jean Reno ...  Vincent
Natascha McElhone ...  Deirdre
Stellan Skarsgård ...  Gregor
Sean Bean ...  Spence
Skipp Sudduth ...  Larry
Michael Lonsdale ...  Jean-Pierre
Jan Triska ...  Dapper Gent
Jonathan Pryce ...  Seamus O'Rourke
Ron Perkins ...  Man with the Newspaper
Féodor Atkine ...  Mikhi
Katarina Witt ...  Natacha Kirilova
Bernard Bloch ...  Sergi
Dominic Gugliametti ...  Clown Ice Skater
Alan Beckworth ...  Clown Ice Skater





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[preet]

These subs work:

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/3436592/ronin-en

[sÜmi]

Thanks for this quality up..
Brings back cool memories...